Selected Writings

 of Shoghi

Effendi by Shoghi

 Effendi

 

 
 

 

  

  

 

 

 

Edition / Page No. ( 1942 / 1975 ) : Address :

Synopsis

Edition / Page No. ( 1942 / 1975 ) : 3 – 5 / vii
The original edition began with nearly three pages of excerpts from Abdu’l-Baha’s Will and Testament, in which he commanded his followers to “turn unto Shoghi Effendi….” This has been reduced in the 1975 edition to two paragraphs with statements concerning hereditary succession of the Guardianship and the role of the Guardian as the Head of the Universal House of Justice replaced with ellipses.
 

 
 

Edition / Page No. ( 1942 / 1975 ) : 10 / 4
Two paragraphs have been removed, one of which deals mainly with outdated statistics concerning the growth of the Faith. The other is an assertion by Shoghi Effendi that he was “appointed as First Guardian of the Baha’i Faith and Head of the Universal House of Justice….”
 

 
 

Edition / Page No. ( 1942 / 1975 ) : 27-8 / 19
A paragraph has been removed which described the Administrative Order as “the framework of the Will [of Abdu'l-Baha] itself, the inviolable stronghold….”
 

 
 

Edition / Page No. ( 1942 / 1975 ) : 43-5 / 32
Two full pages have been removed, which formed an apologetic for the functions, the centrality, and the absolutely essential position of the Guardianship in Baha’u'llah’s World Order.
 
  
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~ by Jasmine Lagumbay on September 4, 2008.

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